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Date:      Sun, 13 May 2007 23:15:15 +0200
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Kian Mohageri <kian.mohageri@gmail.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup (revisited)
Message-ID:  <20070513211515.GC94292@e.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070513031807.GA6437@kobe.laptop>
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On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:18:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>=20
> More like Solaris 10 "boot -v", where you still get the kernel messages,
> but you have a point there.  I am kind of old-fashioned in the Robert
> way too, however.  If there was a way to minimize the console output
> when services are starting, i.e. to print something like:
>=20
>   [last kernel message]
>=20
>   Booting FreeBSD: dumpon initrandom fsck root hostid mountcritlocal
>   var cleanvar random adjkerntz hostname kldxref swap sysctl netif (lo0
>   fxp0) pflog pf routing devd nsswitch devfs syslogd ldconfig named
>   auditd tmp cleartmp dmesg virecover local motd ntpd powerd syscons
>   sshd sendmail cron securelevel power_profile inetd
>=20
>   foo login:
>=20
> where each rc.d script would only print its name if it *was* enabled
> with xxx_enable, optionally followed by a parenthesized list of
> single-word status messages for each subscript/component), would be
> really neat.

I like this idea. Optionally the names could be printed in green and red
depending on whether the service started successfully or not.

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